What's Search Engine Optimization

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“SEO is short for search engine optimization or search engine optimizer.”[8] “Search engine optimization (SEO) is the process of affecting the visibility of a website or a web page in a search engine's natural or organic search results.”[7] On the query of the users, lists of results are obtained. Out of these results, the website with the highest rank is displayed on the top. The users can search for a particular document on the World Wide Web and the search engine enables the users to do it. “Search engines are programs that search documents for specified keywords and return a list of documents where the keywords were found.”[6] The website must be accessible by the search engine and SEO helps in this case. If the content of the website is relevant and useful for the users, then the search engine refers that website to the users.
The goal of SEO can be explained by considering the user’s browsing practice. It is the search engine which provides the search results for user’s query. Hence if the user needs any information, he can make use of the search engine. And this is the most simple, easy and fast way to retrieve information. For the user’s query, a list of results is displayed out of which the highest rank website is placed first. In general, most of the users go to the page which is on top. This is because; the page placed on top contains more relevant information when compared to the other pages. As a result of this, the page on top gets more visitors than that of the other pages.
Hence the ultimate goal of SEO is to get the page placed on top of the results so that it can get more number of visitors. The page can be placed on top by increasing its rank and this can be done by optimizing the website. In simple words, ...

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